Ratings for the Sustainable Tourism Development Project for Ethiopia were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was moderate, the Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and the Borrower performance was also moderately satisfactory.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: part of the rationale for the project was not only established through the direct contributions to employment and exchange earnings, but also through the capacity of the sector to drive linkages that foster indirect employment, entrepreneurship and investment. This, in turn, created increased awareness and response to demand, which had the effect of catalyzing further investment and generating confidence. Importance of developing PDO-level indicators that are attributable to project interventions and that consider outcomes at project closure. For tourism projects, it is difficult to establish clear attribution of project activities because of the often complex nature of project interventions and the number of unpredictable factors that impact outcomes. Careful consideration must be given to the external factors influencing achievement of outcomes as well as the time lag between when results are achieved and when information is spread and the market has time to react. Community-level involvement in the project, especially during the resettlement process, was strong and instrumental to ensuring a smooth resettlement program. The establishment of a resettlement committee and grievance hearing committee was highlighted as critical to ensuring participation of the local community. Project implementation also required communication and coordination at different levels of the Government, some with unaligned priorities. Ensuring early commitment from the municipal, regional, and federal administrations was important as was participation of relevant authorities in the Project Steering Committee (PSC). More broadly, an understanding of the political economy and its changing nature was critical for the implementation of destination-level tourism activities.
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The development objective of the Sustainable Tourism Development Project for Ethiopia is to contribute to enhancement of the quality and variety of tourism products and services in targeted destinations so as to increase tourist visitation, foreign exchange earnings, and jobs.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) compensation in cash for losses of assets attributable to the sub-project based on market rates; (2) income generating activities are undertaken in the form of livelihoods restoration for the six HHs (those who lost their farm or grazing land) affected from the sub-projects including craft skills training of four of the five unemployed persons of the 37 affected project affected persons (PAPs) who are interested to take the training; and (3) consultation meetings involving the impacted Melkaqunture PAPs, vulnerable groups, and relevant representatives of key stakeholders including local administrations, site managers, Woreda administration, micro and small enterprises, and agriculture and environment protection offices were conducted at different times during preparation of this plan.
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The development objective of the Sustainable Tourism Development Project for Ethiopia is to upgrade the Megalithic World Heritage Site by developing basic tourist infrastructure, and produce physical development for improvement of tourist accommodations and develop tourist related infrastructures.
... See More + Negative measures include: noise and air pollution, impacts on flora and fauna, dust, loss of communal grazing lands, and soil erosion. Mitigation measures include: the project will ensure that construction materials and excavated soils material which will be left over needs to be disposed-off properly and will not be accumulated in the area which can potentially affect the natural scenery of the area and it should promptly remove the material from the site. It will also ensure that the area should be rehabilitated and restored; the impact on the grass and bush from construction of the walkway from the stele up to the fence should be rehabilitated to its natural landscape. Care must be taken during the walkway construction and impact need to be minimized by avoiding unnecessary cutting alongside of the walkway route with in the heritage core site; and the dust and noise nuisances predicted to occur in the construction sites will be mitigated by applying the following measures. Re-suspension of dust in the construction sites can be prevented by occasional sprinkling of water. This will be specially applied during the construction of the new museum and artisanal production hall. The possible noise from construction of walkway with in the core conservation area also should be minimized by limiting the number of trucks from entering the core conservation site. Limited number of daily workers should be involved in the walkway construction. Awareness creation and training programs is necessary to be conducted to workers on minimizing nuisance from the construction activities also to avoid ground vibration around the stele site in the core conservation area.
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The objective of the Ethiopia Sustainable Tourism Development Project is to enhance the quality and variety of tourism products and services in targeted destinations so as to increase the volume of tourism, foreign exchange, earnings and jobs.
... See More + The reallocation is found to be necessary to streamline the project activities to a more focused and realistic target and reallocate resources to meet the projects development objectives by the closing date of 31 December 2014. This will enable achievement of the Project Development Objective (PDO) and improved disbursements given the current status of the tourism sector in the country and as a result of the impact of the partial suspension on the project. Adjusting the outcome indicators of the project is also essential to have a better mechanism for tracking the project outcomes and to make sure that the financial utilization of the project is going to be satisfactory at the end of the project life. The reallocation includes an increase in works (from USD 14.29 to USD 15.83) and goods (from USD 2.22 to USD 4.28) to enable and better reflect current costs for efforts in these two categories in each of the targeted destinations. Finally, the reallocation supports the implementation of the Resettlement Action Plan including drawing upon some of the unallocated funds.
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The objective of the Ethiopia Sustainable Tourism Development Project is to enhance the quality and variety of tourism products and services in targeted destinations so as to increase the volume of tourism, foreign exchange, earnings and jobs.
... See More + The reallocation is found to be necessary to streamline the project activities to a more focused and realistic target and reallocate resources to meet the projects development objectives by the closing date of 31 December 2014. This will enable achievement of the Project Development Objective (PDO) and improved disbursements given the current status of the tourism sector in the country and as a result of the impact of the partial suspension on the project. Adjusting the outcome indicators of the project is also essential to have a better mechanism for tracking the project outcomes and to make sure that the financial utilization of the project is going to be satisfactory at the end of the project life. The reallocation includes an increase in works (from USD 14.29 to USD 15.83) and goods (from USD 2.22 to USD 4.28) to enable and better reflect current costs for efforts in these two categories in each of the targeted destinations. Finally, the reallocation supports the implementation of the Resettlement Action Plan including drawing upon some of the unallocated funds.
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